ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,052, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Robert Bosch GmbH (Germany).

"Camera-agnostic depth estimation via training a 360-degree-image-based depth model" was invented by Yuliang Guo (Palo Alto, Calif.), Seyedmahdi Hosseinimiangoleh (North Vancouver, Canada), Ruoyu Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Cheng Zhao (Milpitas, Calif.), Xinyu Huang (San Jose, Calif.) and Liu Ren (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing depth estimation for images includes, at one or more processing devices receiving an input image captured by a camera, converting the input image to an equirectangular (ERP) image in an ERP space, perform...